When I was having an interesting time of it in college, I was seized with the notion that I was reading an incredibly long and detailed story about a woman named Sharon Shinn, and at …
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Category: Guest Blogs
How My Load Got Shot – Jedidiah Ayres Guest Blog
I just read a review of the film F*ckload of Scotch Tape that ended with this paragraph: “In the end, F*ckload of Scotch Tape is the cinematic equivalent of a repeated kick to the nuts …
Continue readingCock Fisting Commercialism – Ray Banks Guest Blog
You know, when I think about it, Wolf Tickets is a lot like cock fisting. Bear with me.
Continue readingHonky Tonk Heroes – Benjamin Whitmer Guest Blog
There was a time when being an admirer of Cormac McCarthy was more than a little like being a member of a cult. It was before Oprah, when the only way you’d have heard of …
Continue readingSimone Boyce and Game of Thrones Cast at Summit Entertainment’s Comic-Con Soiree
Simone on the beat meeting the Game of Thrones cast… and towering over them?
Continue readingPositing a New Author-Reviewer Relationship – Sam Sykes Guest Blog
I’ve occasionally suggested to those who know me best, and subsequently to those who know me to be a terrible human being with few redeeming factors past my ability to imitate Hugo Weaving, that the only …
Continue readingNotes Towards a Sort of Supreme Fiction – Chris Barzak Guest Blog
I was going to write an essay describing the state of the speculative fiction genre, or describing my uneasiness with certain genre-oriented tenets, but I decided not to. I thought, then, that I might write …
Continue readingYou’ve Been Punked – Sam Sykes Guest Blog
If science fiction revolves around the question of “what if,” and fantasy revolves around the question of “what was,” then the question of “what is, but not so recently is, and more like what was, …
Continue readingA New Urban Fantasy – Sam Sykes Guest Blog
If you’ve been at all concerned with the state of fantasy in the past few years, you’ve probably noticed a drastic shift in genres. The market has split wildly into many segments, including that bastion …
Continue readingCoffee and Conversation with Hegel and Manfried Grossbart – Jesse Bullington Guest Blog
Jesse Bullington – Good morning, and thank you for agreeing to this interview. Hegel: [Mutters something incomprehensible to Manfried] Manfried: [Mutters back. This goes on for some time, until:] Uh huh. Mornin. Hegel: Sure. Good …
Continue readingAn Open Letter to Those Terrified of E-Piracy – Gary Gibson Guest Blog
There are many pro writers out there worried by piracy, who see the internet as the greatest illegal intellectual land-grab of all time. Here’s the deal: if you’re worried enough to want to stop it, …
Continue readingScience Fiction and Why It Needs Secret Decoder Rings – Gary Gibson Guest BLog
It does seem like the eternal war between SF and the mainstream just goes on and on and on, doesn’t it? One minute you think it’s dead and buried, the next it’s climbing back out of …
Continue readingFantasy: Violation of the Possible? – Betsy Tobin Guest Blog
Is it possible to break the rules of fantasy writing by adhering to them too strictly? When Borders UK first shelved my novel Ice Land in the Fantasy/Sci Fi section, I was gobsmacked (to use …
Continue readingOn Religion and Safehold – David Weber Guest Blog
I’m definitely trying to make a statement about religion in my novels, at least in the case of the Safehold novels, although people who have read my other books will be aware that I’ve used …
Continue readingOn Kings and Assassins – Lane Robins Guest Blog
Writing the sequel to Maledicte was an interesting challenge, since I had originally thought of Maledicte as a stand-alone novel. Sure, it has some loose ends waving in the breeze, but life’s like that. A …
Continue readingLIFE’S A BALL! CHASE IT – Margaret Weis Guest Blog
What do authors do when they’re not writing? I race my dogs in a sport that is fun, loud, exciting, and crazy. It’s called flyball.
Continue readingBorders Essay – Guest Blog by Jacqueline Carey
I’ve always loved mythology in all its forms. These are the stories that inform our collective unconscious; these are the raw stuff of our dreams. Gods and monsters, heroes and villains, saviors and victims. All …
Continue readingWhy I Write Science Fiction: An Apology – Alan DeNiro Guest Blog
I read a lot of pulp when I was a kid. Most of it was crap. I also wrote a lot of adventure stories and half-baked space operas, most of which were crap too. Around …
Continue readingPetals of the Rat: loose notes for a new movement – Alan DeNiro Guest Blog
This isn’t a manifesto. This is a series of observations in a particular range of time, made on a mode of writing that I love, what on any given day can be called speculative fiction. …
Continue readingThe Mosaic Novel – Guest Blog by Richard Bowes
When I decided to call From The Files Of The Time Rangers, a Mosaic Novel, I thought that the term was one that Jeff VanderMeer had invented for his brilliant multi-layered Veniss Underground. But when …
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